The Hindu 09.10.2014
DDA’s mega housing scheme extended till October 15
Just a day before the mega housing scheme was to close,
the Delhi Development Authority on Wednesday extended the date of form
submission to October 15. Now people can submit the forms in the 13
empanelled banks and their designated branches till 5 p.m. on October
15.
Meanwhile, the DDA also announced November 5 as the tentative date for draw of lots.
A
committee headed by a retired High Court judge and two IT professionals
— one from IIT-Delhi and one from government’s National Informatics
Centre — will be supervising the draw.
Earlier, the last date of form submission was October 9.
However,
owing to bank holidays on various religious occasions in the first week
of October, the DDA was mulling extending the date. The land agency had
earlier said it would be taking a decision on extending the date near
the closing of the scheme.
It is to be noted that
while the agency has sold over 16 lakh forms, it has received only about
90,000 applications despite going all out by uploading a video on how
to fill a form on its website.
The low number of
forms received does not go well with the initial response the scheme had
generated leading to the DDA website crashing within minutes after the
launch of the scheme on September 1.
